Completing Self Care Training qualifies you to perform the Arvigo techniques on yourself and prepares health care professionals to advance to training as Arvigo Practitioners.

*Instructor: Kayla Becker is a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist in Montpelier, Vermont practicing psycho-spiritual bodywork since 1985. She is a Certified Arvigo Practitioner and Self Care Instructor and has led workshops in Women’s Health: Fertility to Menopause, and Patient Advocacy.

*Professional course assistant: Astrid Grove is an herbalist, midwife and Certified Arvigo Practitioner in Santa Cruz, California. Her life’s passion is to support women, children, and men on their journey toward health. She travels extensively offering workshops and healing sessions (www.birthrootmidwife.com).

Followed by 2 days including:
Healing Lodge and Hiking in the mountains of Chalmita

Temazcali in Nahuatl means—the Sacred House of Vapor. The Temazcal is a sacred tool for healthy living; caring for the spiritual, emotional, mental and physical bodies. The temazcal is the womb of the Earth—dark and warm inside, cared for and protected—the temazcal supports us in our healing work, so that we may come out into the world and our lives anew, with clearer perspective.

Jose Juan Garcia Alfaro and Rachelle Ann Seliga, will share with you the theory and practice of the Temazcal/Healing Lodge, as well as lead you on hikes into the mountains surrounding the Nierika retreat center. (www.nierika.info)

*Jose Juan Garcia Alfaro and Rachelle Ann Seliga—are Sundancer and Midwife, dedicated to supporting the healing of people through traditional ways. Juan and Rachelle believe that change on Earth comes through the healing of ourselves and our families. They have begun to work together supporting families during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.